Johann Becker and his wife Christina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Johann Becker and his wife Catharina [sic] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Catharina died en route.
Widower Johann[es] Becker, a weaver (Weber), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 74 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Wittmann in 1768.
Christina Becker née Sommer (age 46), widow of Johannes Becker, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm41.
The 1798 census of Wittmann records (in Household No. Wm41) that Johannes Becker, son of Johannes, is working in Katharinenstadt and that Anton Becker, son of Johannes, is going to school in Kazan.
The 1767 census records that Johann[es] Becker came from the German village of Bissersheim.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 843.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Wm41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 212.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6824.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4720-4721.
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